Amazon Linux Contracts

Amazon Linux AMI
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon Linux over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 696 836
Rank change year-on-year +107 +140 -161
Contract jobs citing Amazon Linux 2 11 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.018% 0.029%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.034% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £355 £565 £445
25th Percentile £363 £577 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £633 £600
Median % change year-on-year -40.71% +5.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £388 £658 £628
90th Percentile £395 £749 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Operating Systems
UK

Amazon Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,847 9,794 13,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 16.24% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,940 6,891 9,196
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 438 644
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.13 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.44 £17.72 £15.59
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +68.31% +25.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +50.00% +19.40%

Amazon Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon Linux in the UK

Amazon Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon Linux.

Daily rate trend for Amazon Linux in the UK

Amazon Linux
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +120 2 £375 -37.76%

Amazon Linux
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) MariaDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 2 (100.00%) Laravel
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP